Bill Gates at Microsoft: in pictures

When Bill Gates was around 14 years old his school had a Teletype Model 33
terminal and access to time on a General Electric computer – then an
extremely rare commodity for a school. He used it to write his first
computer program, a tic-tac-toe game. Eventually the funds to buy computer
access ran out and he managed to acquire time on another machine, but he was
banned for exploiting a loophole in the operating system to get more access.

This is one of the earliest public images of Bill Gates: a mugshot after he
was arrested in December 1977 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The exact
circumstances of this arrest are not known but it is said to have been for a
traffic violation.